Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is urging his successor to leave the state’s income tax alone. Year after year, Ohio has whittled down that state income tax. “For four straight budgets, I’ve signed four budgets — every one of the budgets we have reduced the income tax in the state of Ohio,” DeWine said. The governor […]
Ohio state Rep. Justin Pizzulli recently shared a story about a man struggling with an opioid addiction who received a court order to go to recovery housing in Portsmouth in Scioto County. “He was supposed to be coming to my community to rebuild his life,” Pizzulli, R-Scioto County, said at a press conference. Instead, officials […]
One candidate for Ohio attorney general is calling for the state inspector general to investigate new revelations about ties between the head of the state’s quasi-public economic development agency JobsOhio, the governor’s office, and Intel, a company that has received millions. The other candidate hasn’t responded to questions about the matter. John Kulewicz, the Democratic […]
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(The Center Square) – Ohio was recently ranked by CNBC as the top state in the nation for doing business. More praise for the Buckeye State is coming in.
A Florida congressman said last month that forcing tens of thousands of Haitians to return to the violence-ravaged country will actually help it. But a humanitarian worker on the ground in the nation’s capital said it will only make a dire situation much worse — in multiple, mutually reinforcing ways. And that’s aside from what […]
JobsOhio says that it’s been transparent and that its board has been free of conflicts as it has handed out $2 billion in what used to be public money to private corporations. But the chairman of its board is a lobbyist who represented Intel just as the board of which he was a member disbursed […]
Ohio cities with big Haitian populations are preparing for a possible uptick of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after temporary protected status for Haitians ended this week. Carl Ruby, pastor of Springfield’s Central Christian Church, said he recently heard of a new tactic ICE is using in Springfield. “I received a call from a […]
With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday. They face being forced to return to a nation that the International Rescue Committee says is “in the grip of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis.” Right now, […]
(The Center Square) – Ohio House Democrats on Tuesday called on Gov. Mike DeWine to take “immediate action” to establish a separate statewide utility rate for large data centers so that residential customers don’t get stuck with the bill.
